Widemouth Bay

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Widemouth Bay in the summer

Widemouth Bay is a bay and beach on the Atlantic coast of Cornwall, England, UK, approximately 3 miles (5km) south of Bude. This stretch of coast is steeped in the smuggling history of times before, and not far south of Widemouth bay can be found many little inlets and coves.

Widemouth Bay is visually very similar to Southerndown and Ogmore-by-Sea across the Bristol Channel in Wales; it has the same (gently sloping) hill-top location; wide, sandy beach; pounding atlantic surf; and significantly the same carboniferous sandstone cliffs. Another significant connection is that sloops from Wales would use Widemouth as a port (in the most basic sense), unloading coal and limestone; sloops would take back to Wales cornish wares such as granite, slate, tin, copper and even Cornish pasties!